![]() ![]() In addition to the establishment of their own government, it was decided that all Creek Freedman, those emancipated Creeks of Black descent, should be granted official tribal citizenship, including voting rights and portions of future annuities and land allotments. Several decades after the Creek took up residence in their appointed land (today known as Oklahoma), they signed a beneficial treaty with the U.S. They set out upon-in hunger, desperation, and fear-what would go on to be known as “The Trail of Tears,” a forced, disease-haunted march into the wilderness west of the Mississippi. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson, a former Army general with the nickname “Indian Killer,” signed into law one of the most cruel pieces of legislation ever aimed at an Indigenous people, the “Indian Removal Act.” Over sixty thousand Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek were forced to flee their lands, centuries-old dwelling places now under new names like Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee.
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